Best Strikes from Michael Kuhr

YouTube is full of martial arts video: nonetheless the number of decent clips about good quality kickboxing is scarce.  I recently found this video and I was impressed of the quality and the rich variety of the techniques used to cause the many KO you will see.   Good boxing with nice, tight guard, axe kicks, hook kicks, spinning back side kicks, quite an amazing repertoire.  Any comment is, as usual, appreciated:

10 good reasons to train martial arts

I wrote some time ago on my personal blog, Martial What?, a post that lists 10 reasons to train martial arts as a good alternative to other sports and physical actitivies: I thought it would be a goood idea to share it with you, CARISMA members.

Please read 10 reasons why martial arts are an effective alternative to gym, aerobics and lifting weights and let me know what you think by leaving a comment.

CARISMA demo at Olympiad 2009 week end

CARISMA took part to a sport demonstration organised by Cambridge City Council at the Corn Exchange in Cambridge.  Six of us prepared and performed a half an hour demonstration that shows some aspects of our training: regimental training, pair training, different styles of sparring and Multicombat for street fighting.

The resulting demonstration was good although the light and the position of the camera affected the quality of the foootage we managed to capture. I am pleased with the overall result:

I would like to thank personally and on behalf of the whole club for the effort and hard work that all members put in this project that are: Georgios, Heley, James, Robin, Rosie and myself. A special thank you for Caroline who assisted us there and was presenting and commenting our show.